PENDULUM CLOCK
Patinated bronze, base in pink granite and gilt bronze, working original mechanism.
An erect female figure, wrapped in an elegant drapery with linear folds, modelled on the examples of Greek antiquity, supports the dial in her lap.
France, first quarter of the 19th century
height cm 83
Publications:
“Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle”, edited by Pierre Kjellberg, Les Editions de l’Amateur, Paris, 1997, C, pp. 382-383.
